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each beast a devil united to a body organised : and as 

 man has not two souls, beasts likewise have each but one 

 devil. This is so very true that Jesus Christ having one 

 daj' driven out many devils, and these having asked his 

 leave to enter into a herd of swine, he permitted it, and 

 they entered into the same accordingly. But what hap- 

 pened ? Each swine having his own devil already, there 

 was a battle, and the whole herd threw themselves head- 

 long into the sea." 



25. Horologiographia Noctuma. By Joh. Wy- 

 berd. London, 1629, 4to. A treatise on lunar 

 dialling, or on dials whicli keep time by the moon's 

 shadow. This is the only separate tract on the 

 subject which I know of: and Wyberd seems to 

 intimate that he knew of no other. Fale (pre- 

 sently mentioned) has indeed described a lunar 

 dial, but only as a digression. 



I now come to four tracts which some former 

 possessor has bound (with others) in a volume, 

 and which seem to have a common point. They 

 are in the black-letter of the sixteenth century, 

 with titles and prefaces reprinted in the letter of 

 the seventeenth. The two first are reissued by 

 Richard Bishop, the third and fourth by Felix 

 Kingston. It may be that various books which 

 now pass as of 16.. really belong to 15.. in a 

 similar way. 



26, 27. A Brief Description of ... . Sines, Tan- 

 gents, and Secants. Written by Master Blundevil, 

 London, 1636, 4to. And a Description of Mr. 

 Blagrave his Astrolabe, written by Mr. Blundevill, 

 London, 1636, 4to. Both black-letter, being 

 parts of the old stock of Blundevile's Exercises. 

 (See my Arithmetical Books, p. 34.) 



28. Horologiographia, the Art of Dialling, by 

 Thomas Fale, London, 1652, 4to. This was 

 really printed in 1593. The table of sines which 

 it contains is the earliest specimen of a trigono- 

 metrical table printed in England which I can 

 find. 



29. A Booke named Tcctonicon, by Leonard 

 Digges, London, 1647, 4to. This was really 

 printed in 1594. 



30. A Fair, Candid, and Impartial State of the 

 Case between Sir I. Newton and Mr. Hidchinson, 

 ... By Geo. Home, Oxford, 1753, 8vo. This is 

 Home's second Hutchinsonian pamphlet : for the 

 first see P' S. v. 490, 573. 



31. The Construction and Use of the Sea Qua- 

 drant, London, printed for P. DoUand, 176C, 8vo. 

 Peter Dolland was the elder brother of the cele- 

 brated John Dollond, as the name is now always 

 spelt. Dr. Kelly, in his Life of Dollond, spells 

 the name throughout with an o, and does not even 

 allude to the old spelling. The meaning, I sup- 

 pose, is this, that the elder brother did not choose 

 to alter his name. Lalande says the name is not 

 French ; but he only knew it with o. My friend, 

 the late Mr. George Dollond, repudiated entirely 

 my conjecture that the name the family brought 

 from France was a corruption of D'HoUande : 



but I never could find any other plausible deri- 

 vation. 



32. A Letter to the Right Hon. George Earl of 

 Macclesfield, concerning an apparent Motion ob- 

 served in some of the fixed Stars, by James Brad- 

 ley, London, 1747, 4to. This was picked up by 

 me in the threepenny box of a third-rate bookstall : 

 a place to which any letter of that date to an Earl 

 of Macclesfield, being nothing more, might well 

 come : for he was not then President of the 

 Eoyal Society. It is the paper in the Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions in which Bradley announced the 

 discovery of nutation, with a separate title-page. 

 If any possessor had scrawled " discovery of nuta- 

 tion " in the title-page, the tract would not have 

 found its way into the box : a little ink would 

 often raise the price of much print. 



33. Reflexions on ... . the Infinitesimal Calculus, 

 by C. Carnot, translated by W. Dickson, London, 

 1801, 8vo. Also, Animadversions on Dr. Dickson's 

 Translation, ... by H. Clarke, London, 1801, 8vo. 

 C. Carnot is the translator's way of writing citoyen. 

 I put down this book to remark on the large 

 number of obscure translations from the French 

 which exist in mathematical literature. Dr. Henry 

 Clarke, afterwards Professor at Marlow, was one 

 of the candidates for the Royal Society who was 

 rejected by the influence of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 according to the discussions in Dr. Button's 

 case. 



34. Algorismus Domini Joannis de Sacro Busco 

 noviter impressum, Venice, 1523, 4to. This is a 

 very scarce tract. Sacrobosco gives the rules for 

 the extraction of the square and cube roots, and 

 gives them well : a thing for which the European 

 arithmetic of his age has not had due credit. Mr. 

 Halliwell reprinted this tract in his Rara Mathe- 

 matica (Lond. 1839, Svo.) under the impression 

 that it had never been printed. But not only had 

 it been printed as above, but also in a collection 

 (Paris, 1503, folio) printed by W. Hopelius and 

 H. Stephens, where it is appended, without any 

 author's name, to the arithmetic of Judocus Clicli- 

 toveus, the very midmost, I should think, of 

 middle Latin names. 



35. A Brief e Introduction to Geography, by 

 Wm. Pemble, Oxford, 1685, 4to. This is the last 

 of the posthumous works of the author, who died 

 in 1623, aged thirty-two. I note it as maintain- 

 ing the doctrine of the earth's stability, which, 

 considering tlie date, renders its publication at 

 Oxford rather curious. Oxford, in the interval 

 1623 — 1685, was the English school of science. 



36. Geometricall Dynlling, by John Collins, 

 London, 1659, 4to. This is the famous John 

 Collins, the attorney-general of the mathematics, 

 as some one has called him ; who by correspond- 

 ence with mathematicians, and by keeping and 

 circulating letters, was a main cause of the dis- 

 cussion about the invention of fluxions. He is 



